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General Category => Unusual Microcar Discussion => Topic started by: Rob Dobie on October 29, 2012, 10:49:11 PM
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Found this awful picture of me in early 1976 fiddling with the brakes on my P50. Everything was seized up after laying in a garden for 10 years. The only bits left today is most of the body (mine) and the wooden block the car is resting on. ::) Look at my legs all folded and crunched up. No wonder I can't walk properly now. ;D
Oh, I forgot. The Peel is the red one recently unsold? at Coy's auction.
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Well Rob time flies. Love that photo. You mind, me useing it for my webpage www.kabinenroller.de ??
Regards
Ferdi
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The car is out lasting you as it should. No one has a wooden block to stick under you and replace all the bits that are wearing out. One of the joys of being a creative person is a bit of you continues in each of the projects you've had. Also am pleased nobody thought to paint you red. Stuart might have bought you in the auction, though.
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Heavy wooden block! You probably could have strained yourself less by using an egg box
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Not on page 3 ferdi - in uk that's reserved for topless ladies :)
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Well Rob time flies. Love that photo. You mind, me useing it for my webpage www.kabinenroller.de ??
Regards
Ferdi
Hi Ferdi, Please use the picture on your website. It will go with the others you have of me. Rob. ;D
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That's a cracking picture Rob. Thanks for posting.
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Not on page 3 ferdi - in uk that's reserved for topless ladies :)
And topless Messerschmitts.
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Hi Ferdi, Please use the picture on your website. It will go with the others you have of me. Rob. ;D
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Thank you Rob :-)
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I seem to repair things the same way as you ;D
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I seem to repair things the same way as you ;D
Please be carefull or you will land up like me, after hours kneeling on concrete, with osteoarthritis the knees. (Bones touch and lock up)
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Not on page 3 ferdi - in uk that's reserved for topless ladies :)
And topless Messerschmitts.
Ho Ho. As you can see in the photo it seems to be hot weather. It was very, very hot in 1976, topless was all the rage! After I had sorted out and resprayed the Peel I went for a drive down the A27, as then the road outside my house. But I made two mistakes. First, forgot to check on the small amount of fuel in the tank. Secondly, the heat must have got to my brain as I had put on a pair of woolen knitted swimming trunks that were over 18 years old. I was 31 at the time, wearing trunks last used when I was at school. Being wool, over the years they had stretched. Not thinking, off I drove only kitted out in said dangly trunks. A mile down the road my perky Peel spluttered to a halt. No fuel, oh blast it, how to get back home? No mobile (cell) phones in those days to call help. Oh sod it!, I'll have to walk. Locking the Peel I slowly started walking home. I couldn't run, the road was so hot you could fry an egg on it. The grass verge had shriveled up into spiky straw hurting my bare feet and the sun was burning my body. Oh yes, those damn trunks had somehow stretched further than I had wished. All I can say is, I'm glad the local cops hadn't gone by in the 45 minutes it took me to get home. I now know what roasted chestnuts feel like at Christmas time. ;D
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continuing robs theme
pic 1 tried it but fully clothed
pic 2 needed a full stretch on pilates mat
pic 3 lotus position ( wish dad would buy an Elan instead of this )
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caption anyone ?
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'That new, by the foot, air filter will never fit, dad.'
'One day all this will be yours. How about Thursday?'
'Are you sure your brother was round here before he disappeared?'
'Valuable L.S. Lowry gets run over by toddler with Trojan'
'Ernie the Hamster went in the there. ---- I can hear him in that thing with pipes on, Dad'
'Fitting of industrial size roman candle, as its firework night soon. The Mersey Tunnel beckons'.
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Dad you are doing it all wrong.
You have a sleep while i just finish fitting this exhaust.
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before YOUTUBE we had the cardboard ........
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a la monty python
robert dobie - block of WOOD naah we ad it 'ard we 'ad to settle ft cardboard - int' middle o' road
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Cardboard tube? You were lucky. We 'ad to make do whit wet rolled up chippy newspaper. When t' car fell on us heads me dad used to apply mole grips to nadgers to keep t' car up.
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Dear Richard
Caption 1
Can I play with your stick dad?
Caption 2
Can we play rolly polly dad?
Caption 3
I wonder why it is harder to do a poo when sitting on the ground.
Chris Thomas
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yes son but not as hard as doing it upside down like you tried before :)
i was amused but my 6" 4" 21 year old son wont be - when he gets up !
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Caption 3
I wonder why it is harder to do a poo when sitting on the ground.
On no. Self levitating little laddies.
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oh rob a pic here of me knackering my knees ! yes mine give me a lot of problems too . 1977 this one
messing with the chaincase of my matchless lightweight 350,parts in the background 1937 fiat topolino , we STILL have and the front wheel of my suzuki AS50 - too many projects as ever ;)
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I see you are wearing a Simon Cowell style open shirt but no spray-on tan for you then?
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large can of cellulose thinners and some sort a gazzy goo , was it blue hylomar , at hand . great memories . unfortunately the body now has more like knock knees and great mammaries :D
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This is how I jack up my moped ;)
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I wish my knees knocked together. My legs are more bowed out like the rapper PSY of GANGNAM STYLE who prances about with a load of Korean young ladies. Lucky sod! A dwarf could walk under mine without touching the sides. ;D
Picture below is me two years before I touched a Peel. Hope it doesn't frighten you.
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eeh but they don't know there born - their cobbles aren't they
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ah but since then they invented the goatee - you can grow one in the greenhouse and just slot it into the gap